SIGN UP NOW FOR FOUR EXCITING SUMMER CLASSES AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE
Have you wanted to develop your improvisation muscles? How about turning that idea you’ve always had into a play? Or developing the skills that every actor should have? Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering four theatre classes for adults in acting, body and voice for the actor, improv, and playwriting.
All classes will be held at the Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222. For more information about this and Kumu Kahua productions, visit www.kumukahua.org.
BEGINNING IMPROVISATION: Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, 9am to Noon, June 2-July 7, 2006. $100.
Instructor: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. His play, Who Killed Gilbert Bothello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC 16’s Mental Tilapia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show). He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot, and a member of another, Loose Screws.
PLAYWRITING: This class will cover the basics of playwriting including dialogue, character development, structure, and building scenes. Students will work on a one-act play or start on a full-length play. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturday mornings, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, June 2-July 14. (There will be no class on June 16.) $100.
Instructor: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, writer and actress, received her MA in drama and theatre at U.H. M?noa. Nine of her plays have been produced in Hawai‘i primarily by Kumu Kahua Theatre and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Recipient of the Hawai‘i Award for Literature for her body of work, her plays The Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu and Ka’iulani toured Edinburgh, Scotland, Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles. Her play, Tofa Samoa, was invited to the Okinawan Children's Theatre Festival. Her other plays include KKT’s production Ola N? Iwi, HTY’s Ka Wai Ola and the Kennedy Theatre’s Story of Susanna. Vicki is the recipient of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 1996 Individual Artists Fellowship Award in theatre as a playwright.
BODY AND VOICE CLASS: This course will include vocal exercises and methods from many teachers, including Kristin Linklater and Edith Skinner. Most of the vocal development work will center around the teachings of Robert Perillo, a well-known vocal coach in New York who teaches at the Stella Adler Studio. The weekly classes will include physical warm-ups, breathing, and articulation exercises. We will apply what we learn about voice to Shakespearean monologues. For the first class, students should memorize the prologue from Henry V: “O for a muse of fire....” (Check the Kumu Kahua website for the text.) Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturday afternoons, 4pm-6pm, June 2-July 28, 2007. (There will be no class on July 7 and 14.) $85.
Instructor: BETTY BURDICK holds an M.F.A. in Directing from UH-M?noa and teaches theatre at Leeward Community College and Hawai‘i Pacific University. She has over thirty years of acting experience in Seattle, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, and Honolulu. While acting on the mainland, Betty coached professional actors and held seminars in Character Movement for the Actor. Local acting credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Deathtrap, Wit,and A Little Night Music for MVT, and Boston Marriage for TAG, and Much Ado About Nothing for the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival. Her directing credits include King Kal?kaua’s Poker Game at KKT, as well as work at UH-M?noa, MVT, and HTY.
SCENE STUDY: This course will focus on bringing the script to life. We will examine different types of text and learn how to efficiently breakdown a scene. From the dos and don’ts of learning dialogue to making active choices that draw an audience into your work, this class will give newer actors a base from which to build and more experienced actors will learn to identify and break through the walls that have held them back. Students will work on memorized scenes, mock auditions, improvisations, and assorted exercises. Schedule: 6 sessions, 6pm to 9pm, June 7th to July 12.
* Please note: This class will take place at The Academy of Film & Television, 1174 Waimanu Street, Suite A, Honolulu.
Instructor: SCOTT ROGERS has coached principal actors, for more than 3000 hours on the sets of movies and national television shows. He has produced, cast and/or directed more than 100 professional productions. He was the full-time, on-set Acting Coach for the Fox-TV series North Shore and was also the Acting Coach for the TV show Baywatch: Hawaii. Scott was formerly under exclusive contract as an acting coach with 20th Century Fox Studios. During the last 20 years, Scott has been hired by actors, studios, and production companies to Coach/Produce/Direct hundreds of working actors including: Donna Mills (Knotts Landing), Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue), Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Pat Morita (Karate Kid), Brooke Burns (Dog Eat Dog), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ted Lange (Love Boat), Tony Bennett & many others. Scott is a member of Actors Equity Association, AFTRA and sits on the Board of Directors for the Hawaii branch of the Screen Actors Guild. His students appear on TV, Film, & on Broadway, daily.
Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.
